Ed Schultz lecturing anyone else to be less bellicose -- what a hoot!
The easily angered, perpetually irritated MSNBC host is no fan of Republicans, but one in particular drew his ire this week -- Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who kicked off his campaign for president on Monday.
Schultz deemed it laughable for Rubio to claim broader experience than a predecessor in the Senate who also ran for president during his first term as a senator -- the incumbent president, the one they just swoon over at MSNBC -- and Schultz then painted Republicans as trigger-happy nuke bombers (audio) --
SCHULTZ: You know, there is this thing in the Republican Party about, you got to hang around long enough to be able to get the nomination, such as the case with Romney, with George W. Bush, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush ...
... Hillary Rodham Clinton ... oh wait ...
SCHULTZ: The Republicans have always looked for some kind of experience.
Democrats, on the other hand, prefer on the job training ...
SCHULTZ: And when Bush ran, Bush 43, when he ran, of course, they were touting the fact that he had executive experience because he was a governor of Texas. Here's Rubio talking about what's at stake, because the country is in peril! He just has to run for the presidency.
RUBIO: I've heard some suggest that I should step aside and wait my turn. But I cannot. Because I believe our very identity as an exceptional nation is at stake and I can make a difference as president.
SCHULTZ: How can he make a difference? He says on Fox News last night that if he's commander in chief, he's going to invest in a new long-range bomber. He also said that he's going to come up with a new high-tech submarine. ... Folks, let me tell you something -- the Republicans aren't going to be happy until they see a mushroom cloud, the way they're trying to deep-six this Iran nuclear talks. They don't even want to give peace a chance.
More accurately, Republicans don't want to give appeasement a chance. And if a deal with Iran over its nuclear program is as historically important as liberals claim, why should it not require congressional approval? Once again, left wingers want it both ways -- the deal is seismic in significance while just falling short of the threshold for assent from Congress. Geez, what are the odds of that?
After smearing Republicans on his podcast Tuesday, Schultz toned it down considerably later that afternoon on MSNBC's The Ed Show. Of Rubio's proposals to bolster military readiness, Schultz said this -- "Is that going to solve America's problems? I don't think so."
Hmm, nary a mushroom cloud in sight ...
A reminder to Schultz, avid NewsBusters reader that he is -- nuclear weapons have been used in warfare only once, during World War II when a Democrat in the White House named Harry Truman ordered them dropped on Japan. Don't take my word for it, Ed, just ask Google.
After that, we came within a whisker of deploying them again during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early '60s. And what a coincidence, the president at the time, John Kennedy, was a Democrat too.
Meanwhile, the tally for Republicans remains zero, though not for lack of potential targets.
